Wine Wine Wine - May 06'

aha ... we decided a family gateway to the biggest island, Australia after my Angkor Trip. We arrived at Melbourne around 7a.m. Aus time but was quarantined in the airport for some questionnaires... why ??!?!?? they thought we are going to stay in Australia and never returned and held us in the airport for almost one and a half hours !!!!

In Melbourne, we have a city tour, I kinda like this place as it is quite a lay back town, we have a city tour then went back to our Batman Hill's hotel ... Nothing much to see in the town, but I quite like the environment there. The next day we headed to the Philip Island, hahaha to see the penguin for the 2nd time, i have seen once in Omaha Zoo, Nebraska back when i was still studying in the states, but this is the first time i see such small and adorable penguin !!!! can you imagine the size of an adult penguin is not even 30cm? WOW !!!!! *Shock* It was kinda chilly then.

We stayed a night in the Philip Island then we headed to Yalla Valley .... there's the place for wine ;) along the journey, we can see lots of grapes alley, the view is pretty awesome ! I bought two bottle of red wine from Domain Chaldon ...

At night, we flew to Sydney. I've been here once to visit my aunt. Except for the well known Opera House, Darling harbor and the Chinatown, actually is nothing much to see in Sydney city itself... but what i can say is, the view is awesome ! Of course i could have done a lot of activities here like sky dive, climb the bridge, oh well ...guess it was too expensive for me to do so ;) We do have a seafood feast in one of the famous Chinese restaurant the Chinatown, i couldn't remember the name, there we took huge Lobster, and big and fat clay Crab !!! So big !!! and of course it cost us around AUS400 .... hohohho ... but it was really good !!!! Oh yah .. how can i forget the luxurious hotel we have stayed in - Four Points !!!!

Then we flew to Brisbane and from there we drove to the Gold Coast, beaches, beaches and beaches .... and hey ... now i remember, we didn't really went for a swim !!!!! instead we went to for a roller coastal and some xciting rides in sea-world and the universal studios and of course some shopping in one of the factory outlets there, guess we spent too much time in the factory outlet :P

On the 7th day we drove back to Brisbane and we have a leisure walk around the city area and then we headed home.

It was a nice family tour and we will sure arrange for another one to New Zealand !!!

ShangHai -April 06

I didn't really get a chance to travel around Shanghai, co'z i was here for a workshop and most of the time I was working in the HP building or in the hotel. But is wasn't too bad to work in the HP building as it has a nice view of Shanghai ... and managed to snap some "quick-pix" from the window from the office building, hotel and from a cab we are riding to go around shanghai town :P


The FOOD is awesome, i have "little-dumpling" 小龙包 for almost every meal, it tasted just so good ... and not forget those hot and spicy food we had, and it makes my lips bloated, very embarrassing ! There's one place call “滴水洞“ .... yum yum ... famous for the "water-cook-fish", some pork ribs, and some other spicy stuff ... check out it's menu, which is all listed in Chinese and pity our "banana" friend can't even order anything from the menu ....

We had a chance to go "around" shanghai for about an hour before departing ... hahaha...what a ride !

Magnificent Angkor Wat - April 06

Heard a lot bout this place and being one of the seven wonders in the world, and yet it's not too far from where i live, so ...why not ?



I remember there's was this AirAsia sales on the flight ticket to fly to Cambodia and at the same time my sis-in-law suggested to go for a break from the hectic work schedules and then we planned everything in just one week and there we go to Angkor Wat !

Places we went, the Angkor Wat of course!, Bahreng, Baksei Chamkrong, South Gate, Angkor Thom (my personal favorite ... remember the Tomb Raider ??? Angelina Jolie ring your bell ?? ) Ba Phoun, Elephant Terrace, Terrace if Leper King, Prasat Kravan, Srah Srang, Banteay kdei, and some other tempers which i can't really recall the names but then most of the tempers will soon be devastated by the forest, there are some restoration work being carried out. (oh. remember to bring along a passport size photo in order to enter to the Angkor Wat area)

The food...hmmm ... errrr ..... guess can't expect too much unless you are going to have buffet in hotels and etc ... i would say i don't get a chance to taste any unique dish, it's more like something we had in Thailand, tom yam, pineapple rice, sticky rice with manggo, etc.

It's a wonderful and sweaty trip, be prepare to WALK a LOT !